TwentyFifteen uses the Noto Serif font. It looks swish and comes with an Apache license, and it can be pulled from Google Fonts too. It’s a fine font indeed – but individuals that we are, it may not be for everybody. It’s easy to change it to something else though, and in this article I’ll … Read more
By default, TwentyFifteen will hyphenate text on posts and pages. This works well for most, but some find this feature annoying. It’s easy to override with a small CSS tweak – let me show you how. Here’s what a post might look like by default: Notice the hyphenations in lines 3 and 4. Now add … Read more
I love the Twentythirteen theme – except for the captions that appear underneath images. If you’ve ever seen them they look so out of place as if someone forgot to style them altogether. Here’s what they look like by default: Notice how the captions are actually larger than the post text. I wanted to drop … Read more
When you’re displaying graphics that are served from your own theme directory, hard coding is never a good idea. In fact it’s impossible because you don’t know your user’s URL. There are a couple of built-in WordPress functions that can help us here. One of them is called get_stylesheet_directory_uri which returns the URL to your … Read more
Its this tiny little graphic that gets displayed in your browser when you’re visiting certain websites (left of the URL). Technically it’s a file called “favicon.ico” in the root directory of your installation. It’s a 16×16 pixel graphic in either ICO, JPG or PNG format. For details, check Wikipedia’s excellent article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Favicon If you’d like … Read more
If you’ve ever created a WordPress Theme and you’re not happy with the way it outputs text to your theme, you might be interested in a handy plugin called the_excerpt_reloaded(). You can shorten the number of words being printed to screen you can add a handy “Read More” or whatever link allow or disallow certain … Read more
One of the most amazing things about WordPress is that you can select a completely new layout for your site at the touch of a button. It’s just as easy to upload a new theme to your library – try it out for yourself. Here’s what you do: download and un-zip your theme, so you … Read more
